Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Solomon Islands and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Popol Vuh to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Negative Approach,
Ossler,
Avey Tare,
The Skatalites,
Yaz,
Underground Resistance,
Half Japanese,
La Düsseldorf,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young,
Boz Scaggs,
Todd Terry,
T.S.O.L.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Schoolly D,
Deadbeat,
The Real Kids,
Darondo,
Skarface,
Robert Görl,
Arthur Verocai,
The Selecter,
The United States of America,
Eric Copeland,
Nils Olav,
Aaron Thompson,
Amazonics,
The Monks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grandmaster Flash,
Duran Duran,
The Electric Prunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Aswad,
James White and The Blacks,
Tears for Fears,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nirvana,
Radiohead,
The Raincoats,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Trojans,
F. McDonald,
Gang Green,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sister Nancy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gong,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tubeway Army,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pierre Henry,
Theoretical Girls,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.